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With cheers and matrimony, North Americans celebrate total solar eclipse
NIAGARA FALLS, New York (Reuters) -Throngs of skywatchers across North America gazed upward at a blackened sun in the midday dusk on Monday, celebrating with cheers, music and matrimony the first tota...
Apr 08, 2024 People look to the sky, ahead of a total solar eclipse, where the moon will blot out the sun, at Niagara Falls, New York, U.S. April 8, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Large crowd wowed by the solar eclipse at Peoria Riverfront Museum
PEORIA, Ill. - People from all over central Illinois came to the Peoria Riverfront Museum on Monday to see the solar eclipse. The Museum's Melody Konrad says reservations to view the eclipse from the ...
Apr 08, 2024 People viewing the solar eclipse at Peoria Riverfront Museum Monday, April 8, viewed the sight with their eclipse glasses on.
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Autopsy completed on human remains found in rural Peoria County
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - An autopsy was completed Monday on the remains of a man who went missing in March of 2021 in rural Peoria County. The Peoria County Coroner's Office says 34-year-old Gabriel Cook...
Apr 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
US Justice Dept rebuffs Republican demand for audio of Biden interview
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday rebuffed demands by Republicans in the House of Representatives to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden's interviews with a sp...
Apr 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden waves as he departs for Baltimore from the White House in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Park-A-Palooza to return for second year on Peoria Riverfront in June
PEORIA, Ill. - For the second year in a row, the Peoria Riverfront will be host to a family-friendly three-day event. Park-A-Palooza from the Peoria Park District will take place from June 6-8 on the ...
Apr 08, 2024 (Peoria Park District via Facebook)
Fon Du Lac Park District police chief fired. Here's what we know
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The Fon du Lac Park District is looking for a new police chief. 25 News reports Chief Chance Barlow was let go during a special meeting on Friday. Barlow had been placed on paid ad...
Apr 08, 2024 (Fon Du Lac Park District)
Landmark Recreation Center closed again due to water main issues
PEORIA, Ill. - Landmark Recreation Center is closed again as water main repair work continues. In a social media post...the center says it will be closed Monday)and Tuesday as further inspection and r...
Apr 08, 2024 (Landmark Recreation Center)
Man injured after shooting Saturday evening in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating a shooting from Saturday evening that injured a man. Police say officers responded just after 7:15 P.M. to a local hospital, where a man with gunshot wou...
Apr 08, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Actor Jonathan Majors avoids jail after domestic violence conviction
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jonathan Majors, a fast-rising Hollywood star before domestic violence charges derailed his career, avoided jail and was sentenced to one year of domestic-violence counseling on Mo...
Apr 08, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Actor Jonathan Majors departs with Meagan Good from the second day of deliberations on his assault and harassment case at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, U.S., December 15, 2023. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado/File Photo
Hamas says Gaza truce talks still deadlocked despite reports of progress
CAIRO (Reuters) - A Hamas official said on Monday no progress was made at a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo also attended by Israeli, Qatar and U.S. representatives, after the Egyptian host...
Apr 08, 2024 Israeli tank maneuvers near Israel's border with Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in southern Israel, April 7, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
